Video: Clean Energy, Climate Change Challenges in Africa
Published January 05, 2009 @ 04:02PM PT
In a remote Ethiopian mountain community, using solar power lets the villagers give up the expense and risks of kerosene to generate electricity -- leapfrogging past centralized, dirty energy sources to live better and more prosperously than they did before. Plus, other other African views on the impacts of climate change:
Produced by the Global Environment Facility -- an international partnership that channels the funding created under different environmental agreements, including the UN climate treaty, into sustainable development efforts.
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